Bearing.



0.7011938. Patnted Aug. 12, I902.

E. a. HENDBICK.

BEARING (Application filed Apr. 17, 1901.)

(No Model.)

Inventor Att'ys.

Witn esss UNITED STATES PATENT Fr es.

ELI E. HENDRICK, OF CARBONDALE, PENNSYLVANIA.

BEARING.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 706,938, dated August 12, 190 2. Application filed April 17, 1901. Serial No- 56,228. (No model.)

To all whom, it 77mg concern:

Be it known that I, ELIE. HENDRIOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carbon dale, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bearings,of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a bearing, consisting of few and easily manufactured parts, which shall be cheap in construction and durable in operation and which shall attain maximum efficiency in use.

In carrying out the invention I employ a cage consisting of two substantially parallel disks which may, if desired, be centrally perforated to provide for the passage of a shaft. These disks are provided with mortises, preferably arranged in spiral or tangential series, in order to distribute the wear of the rolls mounted therein over. the entire surface of the bearingdisks arranged on either side of said cage. Within these mortises are disposed rolls, the peripheries of which project through said mortises and bear upon the wearing-disks above and below the cage. Each of therolls is provided at its center and on either side with a stud or gudgeon, adapted to be located in the recess between the parallel disks of the cage. The degree of outward projection of said studs or gudgeons is greater than the width of the mortises through which the rolls extend, and the Width of the recess between the disks and the diameter of said studs or gudgeons is so proportioned as to preclude the jamming of the rolls in the mortises.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-'- Figure 1 is a plan view of the bearing, and Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Referring to said drawings, in which similar letters denote corresponding parts, A B designate two parallel disks, formingthe cage for the rolls. In the present instance I have shown these disks as provided with a central perforation a for the reception of a shaft, although for some uses this perforation may The disk A of the bearing is provided, adjacent to its center or adjacent to the central perforation, with a downwardlyprojecting annular flange a. As

illustrated more clearly in Fig. 2, the disks A.-B are separated, there being a recess 0 be tween them.

D D designate mortises formed in each of the disks A B and arranged at varying distances from the centerof said disks. I have here shown such mortises as arrangedin spiral lines, there being three series of such mortises, in order to evenly distribute the wear of the rolls in such mortises upon the disks or plates E E, placed above and below the cage. As clearly shown in Fig. 1, the major axes of said mortises (and of the rolls located therein, as hereinafter described) are arranged substantially at right angles to the radii of the disks A B.

F Fdesignate rolls mounted between the cage-disksA B and the peripheries of which project through the mortises D. Each of these rolls is provided with studs or gndgeons e.e, preferably of such size as to permit vertical movement of the roll within its mortise and of the gudgeons within the recess 0.

In assembling the bearing it is only necessary to place the rolls in the mortises of the disk B of the cage, after which the disk A may be placed in position, the mortises therein registering with the mortises in the disk B. The disks or plates E E aboveand below the cage being then adjusted the bearing is ready for use. If desired, the disks A B, forming the cage, may be secured together as, for instance, by means of screws. Where the bearing is to be used as a thrust-bearing, both the cage and the wearing'disks may be provided with the central perforation,as hereinbefore indicated.

What I claim is 1. In a bearing, the combination with two parallel separated disks, having mortises formed therein at varying distances from the center thereof, of rolls mounted between said disks, and the peripheries of which extend through and beyond said mortises and pins or studs upon said rolls, substantially-as described.

2. In a bearing, the combination with two parallel disks separated to form a recess and having mortises arranged at varying distances from the center thereof, of rolls provided with studs or gudgeons located in the recess between said disks, said rolls having cated in the recess between said disks, sub- IO movement in said mortisesand said recess, stantially as described. I

substantially as described. This specification signed and witnessed 3. In a bearing, the combination with two this 12th day of April, 1901.

5 parallel separated disks, having mortises ELI HENDRICK formed therein, the major axes 'of said moriises being substantially at right angles to Witnesses:

the radii of said disks, of rolls located in said J. R. VANDERFORD, mortises and having studs or gudgeons lo- E. D. YARRINGTON. 

